. Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, Tracheal forceps. Tracheal forceps, which are constructed with a doublespring and curved blades, are also useful in removingmembrane or foreign bodies from the larynx above thewound or from the trachea below the tracheal incision(Fig. 480). Tracheotomy-tubes of various shapes are made of silver, POSITION OF PATIENT FOR TRACHEOTOMY. 573 alumin
. Minor surgery and bandaging; including the treatment of fractures and dislocations, the ligation of arteries, amputations, excisions and resections, intestinal anastomosis, operations upon nerves and tendons, tracheotomy, intubation of the larynx, Tracheal forceps. Tracheal forceps, which are constructed with a doublespring and curved blades, are also useful in removingmembrane or foreign bodies from the larynx above thewound or from the trachea below the tracheal incision(Fig. 480). Tracheotomy-tubes of various shapes are made of silver, POSITION OF PATIENT FOR TRACHEOTOMY. 573 aluminum, hard and soft rubber, but the tube which Iconsider the most satisfactory for general use is a silverquarter-circle tube with a movable collar (Fig. 481), andprovided with a fenestrated guide (Fig. 482). A satisfactorytracheotomy-tube is one which inflicts the least possibleinjury upon the mucous membrane of the trachea, and toinsure this object the part of the tube within the tracheashould lie exactly in its axis, and its free extremity shouldbe capable of as little movement as possible. The trache-otomy-tube is held in position, after being introduced, by Fig. 481. Fig.
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